Bothriochloa decipiens

Bothriochloa decipiens, the pitted bluegrass or red-leg grass, is a tufted perennial grass of the Poaceae native to Australia, where it occurs widely across temperate and subtropical regions, particularly in New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria. Plants form open tussocks 30 to 100 cm tall with slender, erect, often reddish-purple culms and narrow, flat to folded leaf blades that are typically blue-green and sparsely hairy. The ligule is a short membrane. Inflorescences are digitate or subdigitate panicles of two to twelve slender, fragile racemes diverging from the culm apex; the spikelets are paired, with one sessile and fertile and one pedicellate and often reduced, bearing characteristic glandular pits on the lower glumes and a delicate awn on the upper lemma. It grows in open grasslands, woodlands, and disturbed sites on a range of soils.